Salsa

Personally, I think it's amazing - I can go to Central America and spend an entire month going out every night, and not once step foot into a salsa dance club, and yet, the moment I get back into Japan, I arrange to go to salsa dance classes. And so that's what I did last night.

Never have I been to a bar/club where the women vastly outnumber the men. I was kinda worried at first though, because the only people that were there were myself, an Australian girl and 2 other guys... and with that kind of gender ratio, and salsa not being a group dance, it was looking likely that the Israeli ex-army dude and I would have to have a very heated discussion about gender reassignment. Luckily, a bunch of Japanese girls joined the class, and the Israeli guy and I didn't have to stress about which one of us would be twirling the other.

It all went really well. You would have to be very generous to call what I was doing "dancing", but I had fun, and I didn't step on any toes, so that was good. At one point, the Australian girl in the class said that I danced like an Australian guy... which, to an Australian guy, is a compliment, but I was told later that it wasn't meant as one. When I go back next week, I have high hopes that when I dance I'm going to be able to move my legs AND my arms at the same time.